XCOM 200 Assignment Managing Relationships Paper

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. Assignment: Managing Relationships Paper
• Write a 1,400- to 2,100-word paper that analyzes one of your current interpersonal relationships and creates a strategy for managing the relationship. The paper must include an introduction, body, and conclusion.
o Explain the basic facts of the relationship by briefly answering the following questions:
 With whom do you have the relationship?
 How long have you known her or him?
 What type of relationship is it?
 What developmental stage is the relationship currently at and how did it develop?
 Do you want relationship intimacy to escalate, to remain the same, or to decrease? What does the other person want?
o Explain one factor that led to short-term initial attraction and one factor that led to long-term maintenance attraction.
o Identify which type of power relationship you have as well as what types of power are commonly exercised within the relationship.
o Explain the importance of attracti

Managing RelationshipsXCOM 200February 6, 2011Managing RelationshipsMost of us have some kind of idea in our minds about how a "good" or "correct" relationship is supposed to be. We can cause ourselves needless distress by comparing our own relationships with such an idea of what a relationship "should be like" and then concluding that our own is defective by comparison. Psychologists may imply something of that sort when they formulate criteria for a "healthy relationship" which few real couples ever meet. There are many kinds of relationships, and a given kind may fit a given person or couple at one stage of development but not at another. Driven by our personal history, we choose partners who help us meet our present needs, fulfill our expectations, and if we are lucky, work through our issues and grow in the directions in which we need to grow. For a person or couple, recognizing this can open doors to a broader spectrum of ways of being with ourselves and each other. We all know some couples who seem so mismatched that we wonder how they ever got together, yet who have learned to enjoy each other and live together happily. (Carmen Lynch, 2000)I am currently not in a relationship, but I am going to discuss the relationship I had with my kid's father. I was in a relationship with the father of three of my kids, Jerome Porter. We have been in an off and on relationship for eight years. The relationship thing we are working on. I'm gone say that right now we